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Galileo was the first to report lunar mountains and craters, whose existence he deduced from the patterns of light and shadow on the Moon's surface. He even estimated the mountains' heights from these observations. This led him to the conclusion that the Moon was "rough and uneven, and just like the surface of the Earth itself," rather than a perfect sphere as Aristotle had claimed. Galileo observed the Milky Way, previously believed to be nebulous, and found it to be a multitude of stars packed so densely that they appeared to be clouds from Earth. He located many other stars too distant to be visible with the naked eye. Galileo ... observed the planet Neptune in 1612, but did not realize that it was a planet and took no particular notice of it. It appears in his notebooks as one of many unremarkable dim stars.
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![[Galileo image of Lunar north pole]](http://retrieverimages.lycos.com/images/g/a/l/galileo/i/051.gif)
The Galileo spacecraft flew by the Earth and Moon on Dec. 8, 1990 and Dec. 7, 1992. The image at the top of the page is a false color image of the Moon created by combining 53 images taken from three different filters on Galileo during the 1992 flyby. Pink represents highlands, blue to orange denote volcanic flows.
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Purple Moon (4g Galileo - Vanishing Prairie, by Alysheba) landed a betting plunge when successful in the rich Ebor Handicap at York on Wednesday with connections now considering a tilt at the Melbourne Cup. View article
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Galileo verifies that Venus goes through phases like the Moon. The phases of Venus falsify the Ptolemaic System and prove that Venus goes around the Sun, in conformance with the Copernican System.
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Purple Moon (4g Galileo-Vanishing Prairie by Alysheba)- a 550,000 euros yearling who sold for 440,000 guineas as a horse in training last year - could bid to land Australia’s most-famous prize after becoming Galileo’s latest stakes winner. View article
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This color image of the Moon was taken by Galileo at 9:35 a.m. PST, December 9, 1990, at a range of about 350,000 miles. The color composite uses monochrome images taken through violet, red, and near-infrared filters. The concentric, circular Orientale Basin, 600 miles across, is near the center, the nearside is to the right, and the farside to the left. At the upper right is the large, dark Oceanus Procellarum; below it is the smaller Mare Humorum. These, like the small, dark Mare Orientale in the center of the basin, formed more than 3 billion years ago as basaltic lava flows. At the lower left, among the southern cratered highlands of the farside, is the South-Pole-Aitken Basin, similar to Orientale but twice as large in diameter and much older and more degraded by cratering and weathering.
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